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Shepard Siegel

The Ghost in the Addict

Shepard Siegel

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MIT Press
02 April 2024
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How withdrawal distress and cravings can haunt current and former addicts, and what they can teach us about addiction and its treatments.

How withdrawal distress and cravings can haunt current and former addicts, and what they can teach us about addiction and its treatments.

""The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house,"" Jean Cocteau once wrote. In The Ghost in the Addict, Shepard Siegel offers a Pavlovian analysis of drug use. Chronic drug use, he explains, conditions users to have an anticipatory homeostatic correction, which protects the addict from overdose. This drug-preparatory response, elicited by drug-paired cues, is often mislabeled a ""withdrawal response."" The withdrawal response, however, is not due to the baneful effects of previous drug administrations; rather, it is due to the body's preparation for the next drug administration-a preparatory response that can haunt addicts like a ghost long after they have conquered their usage.

Examining the failure of legislation, the circumstances of overdose, and the cues that promote drug use, Siegel seeks to counter the widespread belief that addiction is evidence of a pathology. Instead, he proposes that the addict has an adaptive, learned response to the physiological changes wrought by drug use. It is only through understanding so-called withdrawal symptoms as a Pavlovian response, he explains, that we can begin to understand why addicts experience cravings long after their last drug use.
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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 133mm, 
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9780262547970
ISBN 10:   026254797X
Pages:   192
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Shepard Siegel is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior at McMaster University. He has been a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Royal Society of Canada. From 2003 to 2008 he was Editor of Learning & Behavior.

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